Allegations that a drunken executive uttered a racial expletive and slapped a 19-month-old toddler for crying on a plane describe behavior so reprehensible there really was no other choice for a Day’s Worst.

Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, faces a federal assault charge[1], and was fired from his job at an Idaho aerospace and defense firm after the Feb. 8 incident.

This is how the criminal complaint, filed in Minneapolis federal court, described the incident:

Jessica Bennett, 33, of Minnesota, told FBI agents that on Feb. 8 she and her son, Jonah, were passengers on a Delta flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta. Bennett said the aircraft was in its final descent when the boy began to cry due to the altitude change.

The mother told the FBI she was trying to get her son to stop crying, but he continued. A male passenger seated next to her, later identified as Hundley, “told her to shut that [‘N word’] baby up.”

“I said, ‘What did you just say?'” Bennett said, according to ABC News[2]. “And he was so drunk that he fell onto my face, and his mouth moved over to my ear and he said it, just directly into my ear.”

Bennett told authorities Hundley then turned around and slapped the child in the face with an open hand, which caused Jonah to scream even louder and left a scratch below his eye.

If this scene unfolded the way it has been described, the year in prison that Hundley could upon conviction hardly seems enough.